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and actually the entire state elections while the nation was focused on the inauguration republicans plastic passed legislation to read dog draw the state's congressional districts increase many of them are considered safe republican seats currently the virginia state senate is split twenty to twenty between republicans and democrats republicans were only able to sneak this legislation through because one of the democratic state senators was here in washington d.c. attending the president's inauguration thus giving the republicans a one vote advantage so every general public has reached the same conclusions republicans in pennsylvania florida was gods of michigan ohio but if you can't win an election legitimately rig it chris. well you know what gerrymandering the real problem and i don't think it's limited to republicans in this country i think both republicans and democrats there's always an gerrymandering this was a vote when one of the democrats wasn't around and nobody said we're going to hold a vote well somehow the other thirty nine people knew to be there and he didn't know t
and actually the entire state elections while the nation was focused on the inauguration republicans plastic passed legislation to read dog draw the state's congressional districts increase many of them are considered safe republican seats currently the virginia state senate is split twenty to twenty between republicans and democrats republicans were only able to sneak this legislation through because one of the democratic state senators was here in washington d.c. attending the president's...
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amendment was passed providing for the direct election of u.s. senators and it's a shame that the current year is to be called more the regress. but marking these two gifts of the past the products of our great grandparents generation i think we should at least eighty four equally large scale progressive accomplishments in the area of taxation and in the area of electoral politics. we can't do it by constitutional amendment almost for sure for now but don't be surprised actually i wouldn't give up on that gregory and there's a couple of reasons for that for example to move to a man movement it's really taking off if you get a move to amend or you can see that and and there have been several constitutional amendments the one that i remember happened you know in my lifetime was the one to drop the voting age to eighteen. from my recollection as it was introduced in march and was ratified by the three quarter state whatever whatever however many that was in whatever state that was in august or september me was less than a year from dropping the thin
amendment was passed providing for the direct election of u.s. senators and it's a shame that the current year is to be called more the regress. but marking these two gifts of the past the products of our great grandparents generation i think we should at least eighty four equally large scale progressive accomplishments in the area of taxation and in the area of electoral politics. we can't do it by constitutional amendment almost for sure for now but don't be surprised actually i wouldn't give...
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if they get mitt romney or who learned the hard way this last election so we don't we only have less than a minute left but in terms of immigration we have the dream act moving forward what lies ahead for that dream act was monumental and. set aside a path for citizenship for children of undocumented immigrants of course that fell short by a couple of votes hopefully will see it pass but once again it was a symbolic gesture at the very tail end of his presidency because he's deported more illegal immigrants than every other president and we're talking about one point four illegal immigrants that's one point five times more than bush on average i mean wow for someone who says that they're going to. immigration and left there we saw him really support students when it comes to immigration when he said he wanted to give them more rights we're also seeing is him talking about ramping up border patrol the fact is that immigration the face of it is changing not necessarily people coming from latin america people coming from asia they've overtaken that kind of role so we know that immigrati
if they get mitt romney or who learned the hard way this last election so we don't we only have less than a minute left but in terms of immigration we have the dream act moving forward what lies ahead for that dream act was monumental and. set aside a path for citizenship for children of undocumented immigrants of course that fell short by a couple of votes hopefully will see it pass but once again it was a symbolic gesture at the very tail end of his presidency because he's deported more...
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elections. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for life you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. not your asian day of the ball much more than a point about taking a closer look at president obama's second term be even more true and even more invasions of our privacy can end monday january twenty first as the exam and bottom line for the president only on a.
elections. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for life you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. not your asian day of the ball much more than a point about taking a closer look at president obama's second term be even more true and even more invasions of our privacy can end monday january twenty first as the...
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early elections. all right well let's talk about iran war mongering with iran certainly seems to be used approval ratings for the election but has how prepared is israel for a real combat with terror on. well netanyahu came to power four years ago. vowing to and iran's quest for nuclear power he failed in that but he was mostly stopped by people from within israel from within the top ranks of the military the intelligence community as well as state president shimon peres this was a very rare coalition of people who see the military campaign against iran as a last resort not as some gamble on on a whim as. is perceived to be doing he cannot even if you win still more if you mean if you wins next week or so when president paris confers the coalition forming duty on him even if he does win that netanyahu will not be able to say that he want to mend it for a campaign against iran because this was not an issue at all in the complaint iran's nuclear britain i mean thank you very much for your thoughts that
early elections. all right well let's talk about iran war mongering with iran certainly seems to be used approval ratings for the election but has how prepared is israel for a real combat with terror on. well netanyahu came to power four years ago. vowing to and iran's quest for nuclear power he failed in that but he was mostly stopped by people from within israel from within the top ranks of the military the intelligence community as well as state president shimon peres this was a very rare...
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was the most expensive election ever there was more outside money spent than ever before and much of it came from secretive dark money groups so how can we come together or claim the power of the people in the american democracy here to help us answer this and other issues surrounding democratic processes in our republic is the ribbon logic's yearwood president and c.e.o. of the hip-hop caucus mary boyle vice president of communications with common cause back and alexis baden mer and i center and got a political director with the organic consumers association and what thank you all for joining me tonight let's start with the money out voters in day of action revenue want to give us a snapshot of this definitely it's the money out voters in a coalition of groups coming together to really this bring awareness to how bad the citizens united decision was to many people that decision was as bad as the dred scott decision was and couldn't couldn't you argue that it was actually the mirror image of dred scott because dred scott said that people are property in this one property as people kn
was the most expensive election ever there was more outside money spent than ever before and much of it came from secretive dark money groups so how can we come together or claim the power of the people in the american democracy here to help us answer this and other issues surrounding democratic processes in our republic is the ribbon logic's yearwood president and c.e.o. of the hip-hop caucus mary boyle vice president of communications with common cause back and alexis baden mer and i center...
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fight back against this is salt on our democracy and stop republicans from rigging the twenty sixteen election . he did know this so wayne la pierre says that's. the only way to stop a monster from killing our kids is to be personally in and invested in a plan of absolute protection the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun so by extension the n.r.a. is solution to too much gun violence in america is to increase the number of armed people in america especially in our schools after all what could possibly go wrong . well in response to newtown a school in michigan hired a retired police officer and firearms instructor to be that school's armed guard to use the public boy's bathroom and left his gun behind where it could be found by one of the kids yes they two men got into an argument at lone star college in houston one twenty two year old carlton barry is alleged to have pulled out a gun and started shooting and only somebody else in the room we don't yet have the details fired back at him in the crossfire a school janitor was shot and another person is reported t
fight back against this is salt on our democracy and stop republicans from rigging the twenty sixteen election . he did know this so wayne la pierre says that's. the only way to stop a monster from killing our kids is to be personally in and invested in a plan of absolute protection the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun so by extension the n.r.a. is solution to too much gun violence in america is to increase the number of armed people in america especially in...
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hoping to get mitt romney to show up i'd like to extend a personal invitation to whoever loses the election to come co-host the a.v.n. awards perhaps the most coveted job in the entire universe in the end the presidential runner up was a no show still politics were on the mind of some porn stars performers took advantage of their time in the limelight tatic it against new called requirements in los angeles it's about removing our liberties and that is about our constitution and you know we overturn the long we're going to stop it from being executed politics aside the weekend of flesh and sin is becoming a counterculture phenomenon i'm just a southern christian do what i like to do not having sex and i think i do that a good job based on the world what press coverage and consistent fan base this porn party has a long life ahead in las vegas ramon the window r.t. . well breaking the set is coming up in thirty minutes here on r t let's check in with abby martin to see what is on the agenda today hey there abbi how are you what's going on i'm great still coming off my inauguration a hangover a
hoping to get mitt romney to show up i'd like to extend a personal invitation to whoever loses the election to come co-host the a.v.n. awards perhaps the most coveted job in the entire universe in the end the presidential runner up was a no show still politics were on the mind of some porn stars performers took advantage of their time in the limelight tatic it against new called requirements in los angeles it's about removing our liberties and that is about our constitution and you know we...